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I was reading this article today that was discussing how aliens could full well be living with us here on earth. It got me thinking. Here's an excerpt from it: "Scientists already have some candidates for alien Earth life, including a population of arsenic-fed microbes living in a California lake and a colony of strange organisms near deep-sea vents". Reading that part got me thinking. Why call them aliens? Why can't they be considered just a different species? Just because they are new and strange, you call them "candidates for alien..".

Here's another one "'Unless it happens to shoot at you with a ray gun, life you encounter off of Earth will not necessarily have the same biochemistry as us," said Steven Benner with the Florida-based Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. "You would not it necessarily be able to be recognize it as life.' "
That doesn't make sense at all. They basically just said that if you were to run into life outside of earth, you wouldn't call it life. Umm....HELLO! You're running into LIFE, how can you not consider it to be life?!?!

Just because SUPPOSEDLY humans are the "superior" race, I don't see how that gives us the right to decide wether something is alien or not. Just imagine how we look to everything else? When you come to think of it, Aliens are said to invade land, take over planets and homes. Destroy people. Well isn't that what humans do!? WE are constantly invading other lands, destroying homes like forests and actual human homes. Humans have taken over this planet. Aliens are always depicted as trying to take over the earth, well my friends, I say we've succeeded.